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To Kill a Mockingbird (with signed letter)

To Kill a Mockingbird (with signed letter) by Lee, Harper

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Title
To Kill a Mockingbird (with signed letter)
Author
Lee, Harper
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1960. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. With a heartfelt TLS from Harper Lee to reader Anne M. Virgil, wishing her a happy birthday and reflecting on the emotional experience of receiving a reader's feedback: "It's letters like yours, not book reviews, that keep a writer at work. Ours is the loneliest profession in the world, and nothing pleases us more than to hear from someone who likes our work, because after all, we write for people like you." The letter is dated September 17, 1960, just two months after the publication of the novel. With a typed envelope addressed to Anne M. Virgil in San Francisco. A Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket. Publisher's green cloth over brown paper boards. Edges of boards a bit sunned. With the bookplate of Anne M. Virgil to upper pastedown. Dust jacket with some wear and a bit of chipping to edges. Back panel with some abrasion and couple shallow scratches near flap fold. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco clamshell case. Overall a nice example with a heartfelt letter from Lee to a reader. To Kill a Mockingbird is Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age novel set in Maycomb, Alabama. An American classic, which took Lee over two years write, was inspired by her own upbringing - in fact, Lee's father was a lawyer who had defended Black clients at the cost of his practice. Its production was not without difficulty and Lee once became so angry over the course of writing the novel that she tossed the manuscript out a window. The book has never been out of print, has sold tens of millions of copies, and is required reading for the American adolescent. To Kill a Mockingbird was also adapted by Horton Foote into a 1963 film, directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Gregory Peck, which won three Oscars. The letter reads in full: "September 17, 1960. Dear Miss Virgil: Please accept this belated but heartfelt, 'Thank you!' for your wonderful letter and your kindness in writing it. It's letters like yours, not book reviews, that keep a writer at work. Ours is the loneliest profession in the world, and nothing pleases us more than to hear from someone who likes our work, because after all, we write for people like you. Sincerely yours, Harper Lee." Near Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900

The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]

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Title
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900
Author
[Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912. Small octavo (6 9/16 x 4 3/16 inches; 167 x 106 mm.). [x], [1]-1084 pp. Printed on thin india paper. Bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1912 in full midnight blue morocco, covers elaborately stamped in gilt pointille in a wonderful floral design. Red morocco doublures with an elaborate gilt design, cream watered silk end leaves, all edges gilt. Spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, double gilt ruled board edges. Joints very slightly cracked - almost invisible. How does one honor the expansive history poetic output in the English language? That appears to be the motivating question behind the famous poetry anthology The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900. Compiled and edited by the novelist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), also called Q, this epic collection would go on to be a turn-of-the-century best-seller (almost 500,000 copies of the first edition). A temple of poetry, this volume includes all of the greats and some hidden lyrical treasures. A spectacular binding from the house of Rivière & Son during the best years. The elaborate pointille design is almost breathtaking and the inner red morocco doublures equally pleasing. "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" (Princeton). Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939, transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery," which is still in existence and family owned.
Memoirs of Henrietta Caracciolo, of the Princes of Forino. Ex Benedictine Nun

Memoirs of Henrietta Caracciolo, of the Princes of Forino. Ex Benedictine Nun by [Erotic Literature] [Caracciolo, Henrietta]

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Memoirs of Henrietta Caracciolo, of the Princes of Forino. Ex Benedictine Nun
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[Erotic Literature] [Caracciolo, Henrietta]
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Richard Bentley, 1864. First English language edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 179 x 119mm and collating complete including photographic frontis: x, 374. A square, tight copy with some loss to upper spine label and gentle rubbing to boards. Amorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light scattered foxing largely confined to preliminary and terminal leaves; pages 161-162 partially detached but holding. A female-authored memoir that participates in both anti-Catholicism and convent-fetish eroticism, it is somewhat scarce institutionally but is a rarity in trade with its most recent appearance at auction occurring a century ago. The present is the only example currently on the market. Frank in her delivery, Henrietta Caracciolo recounts how her rise to young womanhood under the jealous eye of her mother -- combined with the untimely death of a sympathetic father -- led to her unwilling confinement in a Benedictine convent. Denied early opportunities for engaging in the courtship and marriage economy she longs to be a part of, Henrietta Caracciolo instead is forced by her mother to repress her sexual identity and disappear into a life of solitude and chastity. What she finds there instead is a space of sexual abuse, unexplained deaths, illicit affairs, physical abuse, and theft. "My sole aim in writing these Memoirs has been to confirm," she writes in the preface, "as far as lay in my power, with the arguement drawn from fact, the opportune and just decree of the Italian government in the suppression of Convents, and to disabuse the minds of those (if haply any such remain) who deem these places the repositories of religious virtues." Timely social commentary in her native Italy, her memoirs hit a different note in Protestant England where Catholic convents and monasteries had long been closed; indeed, it participated in the anti-Catholic fetish fantasy of convents and monasteries as bastions of deviant and violent sexuality. She herself, by the memoir's end, emerges to a new and more promising life -- one which participates in popular Victorian cult of domesticity and motherhood, which she positions as far more godly and fulfilling. Yet it also leaves open the door of female desire and sexual fulfilment. "By the side of a husband who adores me, and to whom I respond with equal love, I am where the Almighty placed woman at the close of Creation's first week." Register of Erotic Books 2950.
Main Street (Presentation Copy)

Main Street (Presentation Copy) by Lewis, Sinclair

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Title
Main Street (Presentation Copy)
Author
Lewis, Sinclair
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Harcourt Brace and Howe, 1920. First edition. Very Good. Second state (with type battered on pp. 54 and 387). Inscribed by Sinclair Lewis on front free endpaper: "To Mr. + Mrs Will Owen Jones Christmas, 1920 William Allen White asks me to send you this book in Christmas greeting- + he let me tag along after hin!/ Sinclair Lewis Washington Dec. 1920." The inscription is probably to William Owen Jones managing editor of the Nebraska State Journal and author of the book By Land and Sea, a publication on foreign travel. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 127 mm). [2, blank], [8], 451, [3, blank] pp. Original dark blue cloth stamped in orange on front cover and spine. Spine lightly sunned and the edges of the spine and boards with a small amount of wear. Small booksellers stamp on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. The most famous novel by the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Main Street is a satirical book taking aim at the fantasy of a perfect American small town, inspired in part by Lewis's own hometown. The plot follows Carol Kennicott as she attempts to open the minds and change the ways of her fellow citizens in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. "Main Street is an exposé of midwestern small-town life, depicting the prejudices of America's villagers and expressing the quintessential statement of the 'revolt against the village' introduced by nineteenth-century novelists such as E. W. Howe and Joseph Kirkland. Lewis's satirical wit and his skill at creating memorable characters, however, set him apart from his literary predecessors. The novel was not only a bestseller, but a cultural phenomenon...The novel was controversial, however, some reviewers seeing it as unfair to the small town and even unfair to the American character. In part because of its controversial nature, the novel was passed over for the Pulitzer Prize, for which it was a major contender in 1921." (American Dictionary of National Biography). Very Good.
Nothing So Monstrous

Nothing So Monstrous by Steinbeck, John

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Title
Nothing So Monstrous
Author
Steinbeck, John
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. First edition. First separate edition, printed at the request of Elmer Adler for presentation to Gabriel Lambert. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. A Near Fine copy, with faint sunning to spine and small split to cloth to the front joint near the crown; gentle bumps to corners. Internally fresh and unread. A pleasing copy. The first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story that formed a portion of Steinbeck's novel The Pastures of Heaven. Here in a lovely fine paper copy made for presentation by the Pynson Printers.
Royal Primer

Royal Primer by PRIMER

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Title
Royal Primer
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PRIMER
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Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
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London: Printed for Carnan and Newbery, 1767. PRIMER. London: Printed for Carnan and Newbery, at no. 65, in St. Paul's Church-yard, and B. Collins at Salisbury. [n.d.c.a. 1776]. An early edition the Newbery Royal Primer, the precursor to the New England Primer. This edition is unrecorded as Roscoe does not list a Carnan and Newbery imprint. The sheets, besides the imprint and the advertisement p. [1] match Roscoe 5b "The text of the TP is surrounded by an ornamental frame of oval lozenges. The letter A in the 1st line of verse on p. [2] is immediately below B in 'Books' in the line above." However, the advertisement imprint on p. [1] matches that of Roscoe 5a. The advertisement on p. [1] is for the Third edition of the "Royal Psalter" which records indicate was printed in 1776, however Roscoe states that this advert could be referring to a reprinting of the 3rd edition. Roscoe lists 12 different editions or variants of Newbery's Royal Primer but locates only four copies. Of the copies we could find at auction, besides the present copy, there have been only 3 complete copies sold of any edition. In 1978 Sothey's sold the only other copy we can locate with this Carnan And Newbery imprint. They stated "This is the only known copy of a hitherto unrecorded edition." That copy is incomplete and presently located at Princeton. Princeton notes the date to be 1767-1768. One small twelvemo volume (3 1/4 x 3 inches; 85 x 75 mm). [1]-72 pp. Complete with two leaves of woodcut alphabet containing 24 small woodcuts, and 26 additional woodcuts including the frontispiece. Original Dutch floral paper boards. Some repairs to spine and board edges. Some minor staining to a few leaves. Still a very good copy, better than usually found as it is a children's book. This primer contains the alphabet and a short scripture catechism There are woodcuts of animals and birds, and illustrations of some Bible stories and virtues. HBS 69617. $8,500.
Richard Nixon Exhibits Distrust of Mikhail Gorbachev, Advocating a Hard Line With the Soviets in a Letter to Reagan Foreign Policy Advisor Jeane Kirkpatrick

Richard Nixon Exhibits Distrust of Mikhail Gorbachev, Advocating a Hard Line With the Soviets in a Letter to Reagan Foreign Policy Advisor Jeane Kirkpatrick by Richard Nixon

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Richard Nixon Exhibits Distrust of Mikhail Gorbachev, Advocating a Hard Line With the Soviets in a Letter to Reagan Foreign Policy Advisor Jeane Kirkpatrick
Author
Richard Nixon
Seller
The Raab Collection (United States)
Description
8/3/88. We obtained this letter from the Kirkpatrick family, and it has never before been offered for saleThe Washington Summit of 1987 was meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev that took place on December 8–10. Reagan and Gorbachev discussed regional conflicts in Afghanistan, Central America, and Southern Africa, arms control issues for chemical weapons as well as conventional weapons, the status of START (limitation on strategy weapons) negotiations, and human rights. Some progress was made in these areas. The notable accomplishment of the Washington Summit was the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty which banned all of the two nations' land-based ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and missile launchers. By 1991, almost 2,700 missiles had been eliminated. Needless to say, the collegial atmosphere of the talks, and the feeling that Gorbachev was a man you could work with, caused great excitement in the United States after half a century of Cold War.In 1988, former President Nixon wrote a book, 1999: Victory Without War, which offered his comprehensive strategy for the West—a vital plan of action that would help ensure peace, prosperity, and freedom in the next century. In it, he provided commentary and suggestions in the area of his great expertise, foreign policy. He began by arguing that the United States should continue to play a central international role. He contended that world peace is inseparable from world power and that real peace is not absence of conflict but living with unending conflict the natural state of world affairs. He sought to tamp down the popularity of Gorbachev, whom he saw as seeking change that would permit the Soviet Union to find hegemony. Still, he cogently argued for a realistic policy toward the Soviets, involving a mix of deterrence, competition, and negotiation. His hard-line views are on display in other areas. On nuclear armaments, he endorsed Reagan's plan for laser-based weapons in space (""Star Wars"") and urged ""no first-strike vulnerability."" He advocated continued support of Nicaragua's contras, covert CIA actions overseas, build-up of nuclear power, more U.S. cruise missiles in Europe, the establishment of U.S. air bases in Saudi Arabia. He blamed Africa's poverty on the terrible governments there. He strongly opposed the adoption of protectionist trade measures against Japan.Jeane Kirkpatrick was a lifelong Democrat, working in both state and national campaigns including Hubert Humphrey's 1972 presidential campaign. She grew increasingly dissatisfied, however, with the Democratic Party's liberal faction and in 1972 cofounded the Coalition for a Democratic Majority. Her conservative writings regarding U.S. foreign policy impressed Ronald Reagan, and during his 1980 presidential campaign she was selected as his foreign policy advisor. Under President Reagan, she became the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, serving from 1981 to 1985. She was also given cabinet rank and was also a member of Reagan’s national security team. She remained active in politics, but as a Republican.Nixon sent Kirkpatrick an advance copy of his book. Typed letter signed, on his letterhead, New York, March 8, 1988, to Kirkpatrick, in which he makes it clear that he does not share the excitement about Gorbachev and still distrusts the Soviets. “The enclosed proofs of 1999: Victory Without War represent my reflections after forty years of observing and participating in U.S. foreign policy. Some of our mutual friends will consider it to be too tough on the Soviets, but I thought it was essential to provide an antidote for the wave of euphoria that seems to have engulfed the West since the Washington summit. I think you may find the last chapter, in which I try to look into the future past the 1988 election, of particular interest.”Nixon’s distrust of Gorbachev, though hardly unexpected, proved baseless. Under Gorbachev’s leadership, the next year the Berlin Wall came down, in 1990 six republics left the Soviet Union, and in 1991 the Soviet Union dissolved altogether.
John Tyler Letter Signed as President Sending his Autograph

John Tyler Letter Signed as President Sending his Autograph by John Tyler

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John Tyler Letter Signed as President Sending his Autograph
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John Tyler
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The Raab Collection (United States)
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05/02/1844. Letter Signed as President, Washington, February 5, 1844 to F.W. Smith. “In compliance with your polite request of the 29th January it affords me pleasure to send you my autograph.”
趙撝叔印譜/ 趙撝叔印存 Zhao Huishu yin pu/ Zhao Huishu yin cun (1st set)

趙撝叔印譜/ 趙撝叔印存 Zhao Huishu yin pu/ Zhao Huishu yin cun (1st set) by 趙之謙 (Zhao Zhiqian)

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趙撝叔印譜/ 趙撝叔印存 Zhao Huishu yin pu/ Zhao Huishu yin cun (1st set)
Author
趙之謙 (Zhao Zhiqian)
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
g- to vg
Description
杭州 (Hangzhou): 西冷印社 (Xi Ling Yin She)/ Xiling Seal Art Society, 1917. Ex-library, first edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Quarto. 11.5x7". Unpaginated. Dark blue cloth portfolio, with bone clasps, and a white paper label on the front cover with black lettering. Silver calligraphic lettering on the spine. The portfolio houses 4 softcover string-tied volumes in dark blue paper wrappers, with black lettering over white paper labels on the front covers. Softcovers with black lettering along the bottom edge of the book blocks. These are the first 4 parts (the first set) of a total of 8 volumes published, collecting samples of the world-class seals created by renowned Chinese calligrapher, artist and seal carver Zhao Zhiqian (also known as Zhao Huishu). The collection contains a total of 128 pages of seals, printed in red and black on rice paper. Zhao's seal work has been noted by critics for its lack of sharply defined lines from knife carvings, and conversely his interest in the flow of ink on the seals, creating a smoother style, in more of an attempt to emulate the look and feel of calligraphy. The front of the first softcover volume contains b/w collotype reproductions of large-scale lithographic text by Zhao, and illustrated lithographic portrait of the artist. The first part contains prologue text by 葉銘 Yeh Ming and 丁仁 Ding Ren, two of the four founders of the Xiling Seal Art Society. Portfolio with rubbing to extremities and along edges, as well as to to the paper label. Missing the bottom bone claps. Some smudging to covers. Interior with some light rubbing to hinges and some damp staining to the interior boards. Wrappers with some light rubbing, creasing, chipping and/or sunning to edge, corners, and paper label. Some of the string-tied bindings are slightly loose. Interiors of the softcover volumes with some light sporadic sunning, damp staining, foxing and/or smudges throughout. Images mostly unaffected. Volume 2 with part of the string missing. Library inks stamps along the top of the book blocks of all volumes Portfolio in good-, wrappers in good to good+, interiors in good- to very good condition overall. *Zhao Zhiqian (1829-1884) was an acclaimed Chinese calligrapher, painter and seal carver of the late Qing Dynasty period. His work had a huge influence on later famous artists such as Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi.
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Honoring the Memory of Ze'ev Jabotinsky on the Occasion of His 22nd Yahrzeit, and Departed Jewish Legionnaires by Ameeti, S.B.E.; R.A. Freulich; Z. Plotkin; Y.E. Steiner (eds.)

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Honoring the Memory of Ze'ev Jabotinsky on the Occasion of His 22nd Yahrzeit, and Departed Jewish Legionnaires
Author
Ameeti, S.B.E.; R.A. Freulich; Z. Plotkin; Y.E. Steiner (eds.)
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
vg-
Description
Los Angeles: Jabotinsky Yahrzeit Committee, 1962. First edition. Softcover. vg-. Quarto. 18pp. Spiral-bound illustrated white wrappers, with black lettering on the covers. This publication commemorates the 22nd anniversary of the death of influential Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and was produced to coincide with the event held in his honor on July 29th 1962, in Beverly Hills, CA. Includes essays, and appraisals of Jabotinsky and other significant figures of Revisionist Zionism, as well as b/w photographic reproductions throughout. Some local advertisements at the back. Pages printed on glossy paper. Spiral binding with many of the teeth chipped. Wrappers with a few light smudges and/or stains. Small creases and closed tears to the top of a few pages. Wrappers and interior in very good- condition overall. Quite scarce. Protected by modern mylar.
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Biblische Weiber [SIGNED] by Ziegler, Richard

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Title
Biblische Weiber [SIGNED]
Author
Ziegler, Richard
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
g to vg
Description
Gütersloh, Germany: Reinhard Mohn GmbH, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. One of 50 (ix), numbered in Roman letters, of the Preferred Edition, signed R. Ziegler on the colophon. Elephant Folio. Unpaginated (70pp.). Original leather with gilt-stamped illustration on cover, lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. Ziegler was a self taught German painter who received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Heidelberg in 1919. He was openly opposing the National Socialists and immigrated, with his Jewish fiancé Edith Lendt, to the island of Korcula (Yugoslavia) at the end of 1932. In 1938 they moved to Huyton near Liverpool where he was interned as a "hostile foreigner." Starting in 1940 he worked for the British Ministry of Information and the American War Office. Under the pseudonym Robert Ziller he work as a cartoonist and book illustrator. Among his works are three portfolios of drawings depicting the "Führer (Adolf Hitler)" and the Nationalist Germany. This collection of "Biblical Women" was created by Ziegler at the age of seventy eight, nevertheless, the impressive depiction of Adam and Eve, Lot's daughters, Rahel, Samson and Delilah and eleven others are an inspired and vital rendering. Text in German. Some light scuffing of leather along edges and spine and somewhat darkened along edges of front cover. Binding in overall good, interior in very good condition.
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Ancient Metropolis of Chinese Culture Starting Point of Silk Road by Zheng, Qiao (chief editor)

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Ancient Metropolis of Chinese Culture Starting Point of Silk Road
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Zheng, Qiao (chief editor)
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
ISBN
9787506273640
Condition
vg
Description
Xi'an: Xi'an Administration Bureau of Cultural Heritage, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. 197 (1)pp. Blind-stamped bronze paper-covered boards in original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated title-page. Fascinating look at the Chinese city of Xi'an. "The endless resources of history and culture, the rich and cultural relics make Xi'an's historical sites typical, outstanding, large-scale, and of high ranks. This provides not only precious and complete data for the scientific study, but also for the study of social and human development." Profusely illustrated with color reproduction of photographs looking at the rich history of the city. Includes a double-page photograph of the Terra Cotta Warriors. Tiny stain on front board, slight rubbing on corners. Head and tail of spine and corners of dj slightly creased. Dj and binding in very good, interior in near fine condition.
[Loose Photographs]: Jewish Concentration Camp

[Loose Photographs]: Jewish Concentration Camp

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[Loose Photographs]: Jewish Concentration Camp
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
1945. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of four black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring 4" x 5", without captions. Curled edges and small tears thus very good. A small archive of four sobering photographs taken of prisoners in a concentration camp during World War II. The men are pictured wearing the infamous "striped pajama" uniform of Nazi prison camps. One photograph shows a group of gaunt men lying in the dirt using cans and bricks as pillows, another shows two men helping up another with other prisoners huddled around them. The only words on any of the photos comes from a sign in one listing times for the ambulance. It is unclear who took the photos but it could be assumed that they were taken during the Allied liberation of the camps at the end of the war. A small but compelling group of photographs documenting the atrocities of World War II.
Manuscript on paper entitled “Adicion,” containing an edict by Philip V. 8 unnumbered leaves

Manuscript on paper entitled “Adicion,” containing an edict by Philip V. 8 unnumbered leaves by (SILK)

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Manuscript on paper entitled “Adicion,” containing an edict by Philip V. 8 unnumbered leaves
Author
(SILK)
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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Folio (295 x 205 mm.), attractive antique marbled boards. Spain: ca. 1737. An unrecorded manuscript addition to an edict issued by Philip V in 1737, renewing a 1699 Spanish ban on foreign silk imports. At this time, Spain had a robust silk industry, centered in cities such as Sevilla and Valencia. This documents a survey of Spain’s silk production in the 1730s and predicts the benefits that will come with augmented isolationist economic policy. Highly legible and in fine condition. Tightly trimmed margins and occasionally touching text. ❧ Codigos Españoles: Concordados y Anotados (1850), Vol. 9, pp. 259-60 (decree of 1737).
The Follies & Fashions of Our Grandfathers (1807). Embellished with Thirty-seven whole-page Plates Including Ladies' and Gentlemen's Dress (Hand-Coloured and Heightened with Gold and Silver); Sporting and Coaching Scenes (Hand-Coloured); Fanciful Prints, Portraits of Celebrities, &c. (many from original copper-plates)

The Follies & Fashions of Our Grandfathers (1807). Embellished with Thirty-seven whole-page Plates Including Ladies' and Gentlemen's Dress (Hand-Coloured and Heightened with Gold and Silver); Sporting and Coaching Scenes (Hand-Coloured); Fanciful Prints, Portraits of Celebrities, &c. (many from original copper-plates) by Tuer, Andrew W

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The Follies & Fashions of Our Grandfathers (1807). Embellished with Thirty-seven whole-page Plates Including Ladies' and Gentlemen's Dress (Hand-Coloured and Heightened with Gold and Silver); Sporting and Coaching Scenes (Hand-Coloured); Fanciful Prints, Portraits of Celebrities, &c. (many from original copper-plates)
Author
Tuer, Andrew W
Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press 1886/7 Number 234 of 250 large paper copies, signed "Field & Tuer." The large paper copies included the earliest impressions of the plates, with the costumes "extra carefully tinted" and heightened with gold and silver. Drab boards with embroidered linen labels. Embroidered ribbon marker. Quarto. Some wear along back joint, endpapers lightly foxed. A very good copy of a fragile book. The present work is "an illustrated digest of the most amusing and characteristic matter contained in…[fashion] magazines more or less flourishing in the year 1807: (introduction).
History of the Horn-Book. With three hundred illustrations

History of the Horn-Book. With three hundred illustrations by Tuer, Andrew W

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History of the Horn-Book. With three hundred illustrations
Author
Tuer, Andrew W
Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
London: Published by the Leadenhall Press, 1897 First trade edition (preceded by a special edition in two volumes, published the previous year in an edition of 1,000 copies, which contained seven reproductions of horn-books and battledores). . Original brown cloth, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. . Large, squarish quarto. Engraved frontispiece, forty-six full-page illustrations, plus numerous partial-page illustrations throughout. Three facsimile horn-books in a back pocket, including one of oak, one of card and one of horn. Front cover stamped in black and gilt. Lacks morocco spine label, one leaf of ads loose. A good, tight copy, with the horn-books in excellent condition. A printed label on the back pocket states: "The ivory horn-book is of a type which was unknown to the writer until after the appearance of the first (two volume edition, now out of print, of this 'History.'" The standard work on the subject.
Autograph Letter, Signed. Dated July 25, 1919 when Fredi Was only Fifteen

Autograph Letter, Signed. Dated July 25, 1919 when Fredi Was only Fifteen by Washington, Fredi, 1903-1994

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Autograph Letter, Signed. Dated July 25, 1919 when Fredi Was only Fifteen
Author
Washington, Fredi, 1903-1994
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McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
[New York?], 1919. Very Good. 3 p. letter written in pencil on 3 sides of two sheets of plain white (more or less) stationery. Approx. 16 x 25 cm. 2 horizontal folds. Envelope not present. Letter to "Dearest:-" Fredii, full given name Fredericka Carolyn Washington, addresses the recipient as Einnie, perhaps a nickname, in the letter. A mostly cheery letter urging the recipient to ride on a roller coaster if she gets the chance. Fredi does mention some possible sickness or maybe a teenage heartbreak: "Well I cried all day Sunday and part of Monday, but the Dr. says if I don't have a relapse I'll be all right and he says he don't think a carriage ride would hurt my feet, [T]he Dr. he said that I need to get a good pair of walking shoes if I want to walk in New York City. I think that I will travel by car from now on. I almost had one tonight." Says nothing about school or work but Fredi had to drop out of high school at some point around this time and get a job -- maybe that led to the crying. Mentions getting a card from Isabell, probably her sister Isabel who also got involved in show business within a few years and whose second husband for twelve years (1933-1945) was Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. before he left her to marry a second wife. She also writes that Alice, Harold and she "..."were up at the store to-night to get some of the nice medicine from Germany." She ends her letter with "If you don't get this letter, be sure and let me know. Good-bye. S,W.A.K. Lovingly, Fredi Washington." The Amistad Center and the New York Public Library have Fredi Washington archives, neither of which seems to have anything dated earlier than 1922. She turned out to be a talented actress and dancer and got herself into the chorus line in "Shuffle Along" in 1921. Her light skin made it hard to get a lot of parts in movies and plays since she was too light and too pretty for the maid and housekeeper roles open to African American women and too light skinned for romantic roles. Her most notable movie was "Imitation of Life, in which she played Peola, a light-skinned African American who is "passing" as white. Fredi was one of five founders of the Negro Actors Guild in 1936. She wrote on Entertainers and Entertainment, as well as other topics, in "People's Voice, a publication founded by Powell in 1942. She participated in various efforts to make America better and less racist. Her second marriage in 1955 was to Hugh Anthony Bell, an African American dentist in Stamford, CT. He died in 1970.
Politics of Decolonization: Kenya Europeans and the Land Issue, 1960-1965
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Politics of Decolonization: Kenya Europeans and the Land Issue, 1960-1965 by Wasserman, Gary

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Politics of Decolonization: Kenya Europeans and the Land Issue, 1960-1965
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Wasserman, Gary
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McBlain Books (United States)
ISBN
9780521208383
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Near Fine
Description
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. map, index, v, 225p. Hardcover. dj. 23cm. Jacket has a bit of foxing on rear panel.
Slither (Original screenplay for the 1973 film)

Slither (Original screenplay for the 1973 film) by James Caan, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman (starring); Howard Zieff (director); W.D. Richter (screenwriter)

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Slither (Original screenplay for the 1973 film)
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James Caan, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman (starring); Howard Zieff (director); W.D. Richter (screenwriter)
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Royal Books (United States)
Description
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film, belonging to uncredited crew member J.T. Woods, with their name in manuscript pencil on top of front wrapper, and with annotations in manuscript marker of layout diagrams on recto and verso of front wrapper, and with names and a phone number in manuscript ink, on verso of back wrapper . A recently paroled carjacker is lured back into a world of crime when his dying best friend tells him about a hidden stash of embezzled money. The first screenplay from screenwriter W.D. Richter, known in later years for "Big Trouble in Little China" and his adaptation of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," and for directing the cult classic, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai." Shot on location in Pismo Beach, California. Goldenrod titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 39, dated July 12, 1972, with credits for producer Jack Sher, director Howard Zieff, and screenwriter W.D. Richter. 118 leaves, with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue, green, and gray revision pages throughout, dated variously between 6-21-72 and 7-12-72. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, with tape binding at spine chipping and splitting, and some soiling on back wrapper, bound with two gold brads.
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SOME PAPERS Given in by the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotlan

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SOME PAPERS Given in by the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotlan
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Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
Description
1646. SOME PAPERS Given in by the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland, to the ... Parliament of England ... Concerning the Disposing of His Majesties Person. Edinburgh: By Evan Tyler, 1646. 4to. [2], 30 p. Modern cloth. Text a bit browned. Wing S1344A.
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OLD AND MODERN WHIG Truly Represented. Being a Second Part of his

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OLD AND MODERN WHIG Truly Represented. Being a Second Part of his
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Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
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1702. THE OLD AND MODERN WHIG Truly Represented. Being a Second Part of his Picture. And a Real Vindication of His Excellency the earl of Rochester, His Majesty's Lord Lieutenant of Ireland .... London: Printed in the Year 1702. 4to. [2], 69 [i.e., 65] p. Removed. Has been attributed to Charles Davenant.
Musiciens de la Chapelle. M. l'Abbé Loup. M. Montaugibet, premier Trompette. aiv: Ah! le bel oiseau maman. Lithograph by Benard after Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers depicting a rather large gentleman in formal dress, half-length, playing a tiny toy trumpet, music in hand

Musiciens de la Chapelle. M. l'Abbé Loup. M. Montaugibet, premier Trompette. aiv: Ah! le bel oiseau maman. Lithograph by Benard after Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers depicting a rather large gentleman in formal dress, half-length, playing a tiny toy trumpet, music in hand by [TRUMPET]

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Musiciens de la Chapelle. M. l'Abbé Loup. M. Montaugibet, premier Trompette. aiv: Ah! le bel oiseau maman. Lithograph by Benard after Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers depicting a rather large gentleman in formal dress, half-length, playing a tiny toy trumpet, music in hand
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[TRUMPET]
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J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
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[Paris]: Aubert ... Jd. la caricatur, Galerie véro dodat, 1835. 230 x 135 mm. Signed with initials in the stone. On wove paper. Text to verso. Slightly worn, browned and soiled; light horizontal crease; small circular handstamp to blank upper right corner. Traviès de Villers (1804-1859) was a contemporary and colleague of Daumier. This caricature was originally published in Le Charivari, an illustrated magazine published in Paris from 1832 to 1937 specializing in political cartoons, reviews, and satires.
A Praed Street Dossier

A Praed Street Dossier by Derleth, August

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A Praed Street Dossier
Author
Derleth, August
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Very Fine
Description
Sauk City. WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. 8vo., 108pp. Beautiful Unread First Edition, one of only 2904 copies printed. Square, tight and clean throughout with no discernible flaws. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper, ($3.00), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Just a hint of the edge-toning so prevalent with this jacket but less than most. Design by Frank Utpatel. A remarkably well-preserved collectable copy. (Jaffery, Horrors & Unpleasantries, pg.95; Hubin p.115).
Edward Wortley Montagu 1713-1776: The Man in the Iron Wig (The Rogues Gallery Number One)

Edward Wortley Montagu 1713-1776: The Man in the Iron Wig (The Rogues Gallery Number One) by Curling, Jonathan

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Edward Wortley Montagu 1713-1776: The Man in the Iron Wig (The Rogues Gallery Number One)
Author
Curling, Jonathan
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Andrew Melrose, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo., 251pp. Sharp First Edition. Bound in green cloth with gilt spine titles. "...fifteen old engravings reproduced in collatype:. Square, tight and clean throughout with mild wear to spine ends. Fairly faint ghost on front paste-down. Very attractive dust-jacket, (one corner clipped which was likely done by publisher for export as the US price, $4.50, is also present on the front flap. Some chipping to spine ends and wear to tips. Edges and spine toning. Still solid and bright. A very pretty collectable copy of a surprisingly uncommon title in dust-jacket.
Obscure Destinies

Obscure Destinies by Cather, Willa

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Obscure Destinies
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Cather, Willa
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., 230pp. Solid Stated First Edition, bound in original green cloth with titles in black on paper labels on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout. Spine sunned as is common. Fairly minor wear and soiling to edges and tips. Lacking dust-jacket. Still, an attractive, collectable copy at a great price.
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The Believer, Issue 3

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The Believer, Issue 3
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Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
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Very Good-
Description
McSweeney's. Very Good-. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good Minus. Moderate shelf-wear to edges of cover and head / tail of spine, as well as fore-edge, especially the lower-front-corner. Postcard is NOT present. Subscription card is NOT present. ; Volume 1, Number 3. .
Wholphin, Issue 8
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Wholphin, Issue 8

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Wholphin, Issue 8
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Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
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9781934781364
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Near Fine
Description
McSweeney's. Near Fine. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. 1934781363 . Near Fine. In original shrink-wrap. .
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Practical Business Administration

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Practical Business Administration
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Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
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Chicago, U. S. A.: American Technical Society. Near Fine. 1934. Hardcover. A lightly shelfworn edition in Near Fine condition ; Vol. 8; 8vo .
I Come as a Thief

I Come as a Thief by Auchincloss, Louis

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I Come as a Thief
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Auchincloss, Louis
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The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
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Near fine
Description
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Signed first edition of I Come as a Thief by Louis Auchincloss.. Octavo, 231pp. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine and front board. Stated "first printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, a touch of staining on back board, light foxing on top edge, a near fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, $6.95 on front flap, a hint of foxing on verso, some shelf wear and bumps on corners, a small closed tear on back panel, a very good example. This copy is signed by the author on the front free endpaper. President George W. Bush presented Auchincloss with the 2005 National Medal of Arts.
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Beachheads in Space by ANTHOLOGY Derleth, August, Clifford Simak, Lester del Rey, Eric Frank Russell, Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham, Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith

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Beachheads in Space
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ANTHOLOGY Derleth, August, Clifford Simak, Lester del Rey, Eric Frank Russell, Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham, Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description
Beachheads in Space, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952, first edition, fine in like dust-wrapper. Contributions by August Derleth, Clifford Simak, Lester del Rey, Eric Frank Russell, Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham, Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith, et.al. Inscribed by the editor to Forrest J. Ackerman
Life in a Kam Village in Southwest China, 1930-1949 Sinica Leidensia, volume 80
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Life in a Kam Village in Southwest China, 1930-1949 Sinica Leidensia, volume 80 by Chaoquan, Ou; Geary, D. Norman (translated by)

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Life in a Kam Village in Southwest China, 1930-1949 Sinica Leidensia, volume 80
Author
Chaoquan, Ou; Geary, D. Norman (translated by)
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Brattle Book Shop (United States)
ISBN
9789004162297
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Leiden/Boston: Brill 2007. 9.5" x 6.25". xiv, 264, [2] pp. Text in English, Chinese glossary. With additional 16 leaves of black-and-white photographic reproductions, maps and illustrations in text. In publisher's yellow, color-illustrated coated paper over boards. A Near Fine, clean copy. ISBN 9789004162297 . Near Fine. Hardcover .
South Africa: "Resettlement" - The New Violence To Africans

South Africa: "Resettlement" - The New Violence To Africans by [SOUTH AFRICA] [APARTHEID]

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South Africa: "Resettlement" - The New Violence To Africans
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[SOUTH AFRICA] [APARTHEID]
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1969. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm); stapled wrappers; 46,[2]pp; illus. Pinpoint wear to extremities, else Fine. Discussion of the South African government's policy of mass "resettlement," which uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and moved them to so-called "homelands." One of the pillars of apartheid.
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Sympathy for the Devil. by ANDERSON, Kent.

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Sympathy for the Devil.
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ANDERSON, Kent.
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Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
Paris: Gallimard, (1993).. First French edition.. 473 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Introduction by James Crumley. Translated from the original American by Frank Reichert.
WILL OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1757 Now Reproduced in Facsimile together with an Introduction by Carl Van Doren

WILL OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1757 Now Reproduced in Facsimile together with an Introduction by Carl Van Doren

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WILL OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1757 Now Reproduced in Facsimile together with an Introduction by Carl Van Doren
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
Philadelphia: The Franklin Institute, 1949. stiff paper wrappers. Franklin, Benjamin. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages followed by foldout facsimile. Designer by Richard Ellis.

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